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      All or Nothing: A Green New Deal for Central America

      All or Nothing: A Green New Deal for Central America

      The Trump administration is already campaigning for the upcoming elections and its main target is an easy fragile one – migration and how to put the brakes on it. Turning Guatemala into a temporary prison has been its latest achievement.

      Renata Avila
      Aug 12, 2019

      The issue of migration allows Trump to show off his imperial power in front of the cameras, and to cover up with much fuss a series of failures. His latest "achievement" has been to force Guatemala - a country on the verge of collapse and mired in a humanitarian and institutional crisis - into becoming a temporary prison for those seeking asylum in the US.

      Guatemala will receive hundreds of deported migrants. The country has been designated as the hell where the concentration camps for migrants will be located, conveniently out of the reach of US courts of justice. Guatemala is thus to become a Tropical Turkey, the country where asylum requests will be brought together, so that the brutality can be carried out offshore.

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      The Old Democratic Trade Paradigm Is Collapsing. Good Riddance.

      The Old Democratic Trade Paradigm Is Collapsing. Good Riddance.

      "Critically, Warren would also include the welfare of other countries as part of the considerations" as she negotiates a trade deal

      Ryan Cooper
      Aug 04, 2019

      For the two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, elite pundits worshiped free trade with a reverence bordering on the comical. As New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman declared in 2006, "I wrote a column supporting the CAFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade initiative [sic]. I didn't even know what was in it. I just knew two words: free trade." That was about the intellectual level of neoliberalism at its moment of peak political hegemony.

      But things have changed a lot. The shine has come off so-called "free trade," and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is now proposing a boldoverhaul of how the U.S. conducts its trade negotiations. It's only a matter of time before the old trade paradigm dies an ignoble and well-deserved death.

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      Whether It's the New NAFTA or the Old NAFTA, It Serves the 1 Percent

      Whether It's the New NAFTA or the Old NAFTA, It Serves the 1 Percent

      One percenters like Mulvaney, self-dealing corporate honchos and fancy-pants corporate lobbyists negotiated the deals. They didn’t give a damn about jobs or wages or workers’ welfare.

      Leo Gerard
      Jun 18, 2019

      Mick Mulvaney, a millionaire who is President Trump's acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, awarded himself another job last week: spokesman for labor.

      Referring to the proposed new NAFTA, he told the Wall Street Journal, "We know that labor supports it."

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